Adjustable tongue-hounds for wagons.



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ADJUSTABLE TONGUE HOUNDS FOR WAGONS.

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IRA O. VALLS, OF BEMENT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO WILLIAM BRUCE, OF SAME PLACE.

ADJUSTABLE TONGUE-HQUNDS FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,316, dated April 24, 1900.

Application filed February 23, 1900. Serial No. 6,257. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: hounds-bar of the front axle the cross-bar is Be it known that I, IRA O. WALLS, of Beshortened or lengthened to conform to the ment, in the county of Piatt and State of Illispace between the axle-hounds near the axle, nois, have invented certain new and useful the bars 3 are swung on their rear pivots to 5 Adjustable Hounds for Wagons, of which the the proper inclination, the links 2 are swung following is a specification. on their rear pivots to bring the tongue-em- This invention relates to tongue-hounds as bracing bars 1 in contact with the tongue, distinguished from the hounds of the front and thebars 1 are swung on their pivots into axle, and it is capable of being attached to alinement with the tongue. Then the brace- IO wagons in which the front-axle hounds are bars 7 are swung into position to properly emof Variouswidths and inclinations and the brace the tongue and the parts are secured to tongues of differentwidths, Itis particularly the axle-hounds and to the tongue by bolts applicable to the large class of wagonsin which (suggested in dotted lines at 8, 9, 10, and 11) the, front-axle hounds are made of a bar of andby a pin or bolt extended through hole :5 'wood bent to form a'semicircle to the rear of 5 in the extensible cross-bar. The pivots of the axle and having its ends extended conthe different parts of the hounds are prefervergingly in front of the axle, and an imporably rivets, and when the hounds are in place tant feature of its utility resides in its availathe pivots are'riveted tightly. v bility for making quick andsubstantialre t 'I advise the use of malleable iron in the 20 pairs. I i i l construction of the hounds; but the material The invention isexemplified in tlie'strucused, the matter of riveting the pivots, and ture hereinafter described, and it is defined the specific form of cross-bar used are within in the appended claims. i the skill of the mechanic and outside of my In thedrawing forming part of this speciinvention.

2 5 fication the hounds are shown in plan in one I claim-- 7 of their almost-countless posit-ions of adjust- 1. Adjustable tongue-hounds for wagons, ment. comprising a pair of hounds-bars, a pair of A pair of tongue-embracing bars is shown tongue-embracing bars, a pair of stiff links at 1, the hounds-bars are indicated at 3, and pivotally connecting the tongue-embracing 30 links between bars 1 and 3 are shown at 2. bars with the front ends of the hounds-bars An extensible cross-bar is pivotally connected and an extensible cross-bar pivotally conwith the rear ends of the hounds-bars 3, and nected with the rear ends of the hounds-bars. it is preferably composed of the central mem- 2. Adjustable tongue-hounds for Wagons, ber 5, which is attachable to the rear end of comprising a pair of hounds-bars, a pair of 35 the tongue, and members 4:, pivoted in the tongue-embracing bars, a pair of stifi links hounds-bars and adjustably connected with pivotally connecting the tongue-embracing the central member 5. The central member bars with the front ends of the hounds-bars, of the cross-bar is preferably slotted in its and a cross-bar composed of a central memends to receive the end members and interher and two end members, the end members 40 nally ribbed or corrugated, and the end membeing adjustable lengthwise of the central o bers are correspondingly corrugated orribbed. member and pivotally connected with the The diiferent members are slotted to receive rear ends of the hounds-bars. binding-bolts to hold the extensible cross-bar 3. .Adjustable tongue-hounds for wagons in various degrees of extension. A pair of comprising a pair of hounds-bars, a pair of 45 brace-bars 7 is pivotally connected one with tongue-embracing bars, a pair of stiff links 5 each hounds-bar, near the front end thereof, pivotally connecting the tongueembracing and they extend convergingly rearward from bars with the front ends of the hounds-bars, their pivots and connect with the tongue at a pair of brace-bars pivotally connected withtheir rear ends. the hounds-bars near the forward ends there- 50 In adjusting the hounds to conform to the of and extended rearward and inward to the tongue and anextensible cross-bar pivotally tongue and a. cross-bar composed of a central connected with the rear ends of the houndsmember and two, end members, the end membars'. 10ers being adjustable'lengthwise of the cen- 4. Adjustable tongue-hounds for wagons trai member and pivotaliy connected with the 15 5 comprising a pair of hounds-bars, a-pair ofrear ends of the hounds-bars.

tongue-embracing bars, a pair of stiff links 1 Intestimony whereof I sign my name in the pivotally connecting the tongue-embracing presence of two subscribing witnesses.- bars with the front ends 'of'the hounds-bars, r I. C. WALLS. a pair of brace-barspivotallyconnected with V v I the hounds-bars near the forward endsthere of and extended rearward'and inward to'the Witnesses: I

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